Jon Jones will fight Daniel Cormier for the UFC light heavyweight title in the disgraced fighter’s first bout after serving a one-year ban for a positive drug test.

Jones, 29, will meet Cormier in a rematch at UFC 214 on on 29 July in Anaheim, California.

The UFC, which announced the bout during a Friday press conference in Dallas, did not indicate whether the Cormier-Jones fight would be the main event.

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Once widely considered the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter, Jones was pulled from a fight against Cormier at last summer’s UFC 200 shortly after news about the positive test for two banned anti-estrogen agents, which he claimed was a result of a sexual-enhancement pill.

He was later stripped of his UFC interim light heavyweight championship when an arbitration panel denied his appeal.

The announcement represents the latest attempted restart for a career that was flecked with limitless promise when he became the youngest champion in the organization’s history in 2011, but has hit the skids outside the octagon in recent years.

He failed a drug screening for cocaine prior to his first fight with Cormier in January 2015, checking himself into rehab the following week. Three months later, Jones was stripped of his title and removed from the UFC’s rankings after an arrest of felony hit-and-run charges.

That set the stage for last year’s return for an interim belt, which he held for three months before he was stripped again over the banned substances.

“Jon Jones has blown it in every way shape and form a guy with that much talent can blow it,” UFC president Dana White told ESPN last year. “Greatest talent ever and the biggest screw-up ever.”

Jones, who has the longest active winning streak in the UFC with 13 consecutive victories, suffered his lone career defeat in 23 professional fights for using illegal elbows in a 2009 fight with Matt Hamill.